The sixteen SAS/SATA disk drives are connected by an internal SAS controller occupying one or two of the five PCIe slots. The remaining three or four PCIe slots may be used for any PCIe compatible cards including NICs, HBAs, RAID controllers, etc. The BlueStor PCIe Extender essentially extends your host servers PCI Express bus outside the server, providing additional slots for any application; the sixteen drive storage subsystem shared in the common Extender enclosure may or may not be utilized, at the users option.

Key feature and benefits of the BlueStor PCIe Extender Storage System also includes -